Infant Rice Cereal -- Major Constipation Issues

I started infant rice cereal pretty early with both of my kids in the hopes that this would help them sleep through the night. Of course you hear from so many other moms that it did help their kids sleep and so many moms say it did nothing for there kids. However, I wanted to see for myself if it would do something for them. It helped Kayla for a few months and then that was it and it did nothing for Madysen at all, so I really don't think that theory works.

One thing that infant rice cereal did do for both my kids was make them both very constipated. They were about 9 weeks old when I started the rice cereal and I didn't give them much and I also made sure that I didn't make it too thick for them to eat either. It started out okay and then suddenly I had noticed that they weren't able to poop for days. The poor little things would try and go but they just couldn't. Honestly at first I didn't even realize that was what was doing to them and then it just hit me one day. Not knowing what to do I talked to my kids pediatrician who told me that there are other types of cereals out there if I really did want to start giving cereals now.

They have some sort of grain cereal and they have oatmeal. I started my kids on oatmeal and basically gave it to them the same way I did the rice cereal and hoped for the best. With both my kids it worked very well for them. I would say it was probably the next day that they were fine and were able to poop again. If I would ever have anymore children I don't think I would even try rice cereal with them and I would go right for the oatmeal and I know that's really not what they recommend but rather then put them through being constipated and everything else I figure this is the better way to go. Then at some point I started mixing fruit in with the cereal in the morning for their breakfast, I want to say right around the 4-month mark. They of course loved having it like that and it got to the point where my kids wouldn't even eat the oatmeal unless it had some fruit mixed in it!

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